Adoption Progress

Since Thursday seems to be a free day, we can make it the adoption day. So here you go...

Monday afternoon Nathan picked me up about 2 and we headed over the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for me to apply for a Certificate of Good Conduct. It's basically a background check for Kenya. Wow...what an experience. On the way there, a homeless man was walking right in the road, Nathan slowed down, but the man just kept walking right into our lane. Nathan had to run off the road so we wouldn't hit him. Told you it's always an adventure here. We got to the CID and had to go have my passport copy authenticated. I'm not really sure what he did other than look at my passport and the copy and made sure they matched. Then we headed over to where the extremely long line was, paid the 1000/= ($13), got the receipt, had it copied, got the cover page where the finger prints go, and headed back outside to wait in that extremely long line. We were the only white people there so many heads turned as we did what we needed to do and then got in line. There were probably about 200 people in front of us...maybe more. We waited and waited. And waited some more. Finally, we made it into the building where there were about 75 chairs. We continued to wait, but at least were able to sit down. We finally got close enough to the front and Nathan left me so we wouldn't get fussed at for him waiting in line with me. There were 3 men doing the fingerprints. I finally made it into a line and waited for a few more minutes. They aren't the most gentle men when doing your fingerprints. Anyway, I got it done and we are one tiny step closer. Now we wait two weeks and go back to pick up the certificate which will probably be another grand experience. :)

Tuesday afternoon, we headed over to Little Angels for us to each have an interview with our social worker. Before we went to Little Angels though, we went to see Dr. Patel, the kids pediatrician. Nathan doesn't have a doctor here and we needed his medical form filled out, so we went to ask him if he could do it. Of course, he wasn't there, but would be back at the time for our appointment at Little Angels. So, off we went to Little Angels. We got there, waited a few minutes, and then Steve, our social worker, came out to get us. We gave him the stack of papers we had collected and then he informed us that we couldn't both have an individual interview on the same day. Bummer. So, Nathan did his, and I will go back on Tuesday for mine. It was really short and Nathan said he could have done more, but we are learning to be patient and not push it. After that, we headed back over to Dr. Patel's office. He filled out Nathan's form for him and stamped it with his stamp that says pediatrician. Hopefully that won't matter. We're getting there one small step at a time.